The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall venture into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, in fact, before anyone, man or woman had made such a trip, 23-year old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become the first person in the world to study animal behaviour in the wild on that continent. When she returned home a year later armed with ground- breaking research, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved much harder to overcome.